re: #370 RogueOne

I disagree. Fed prosecutors use their postions as a stepping stone for other political offices (See: Mary Beth Buchanan et. al).

Agreed.

If there was any chance at all of getting a conviction they would have taken it to trial or they would have tossed on every charge they could think of in order to get him to take a plea.

He did take a plea. And this is the part where you’re being completely illogical: the 95% conviction rate is contradictory to the idea that if there was any chance of getting a conviction they’d have taken it to trial.

In this case they gave him a slap on the wrist. That tells me they didn’t have crap other than the entry under false pretenses.

It tells me that they like having a 95% conviction rate, and don’t tend to prosecute cases they’re not sure of winning. That he copped a plea, to me, means that he could have been prosecuted for more but instead plead down, because that’s what a plea bargain is.